Saturday, August 2, 2014

Event Update For 2014-08-01

The seas, lakes and oceans are now pluming deadly hydrogen sulfide and suffocating methane. Hydrogen sulfide is a highly toxic water-soluble heavier-than-air gas and will accumulate in low-lying areas. Methane is slightly more buoyant than normal air and so will be all around, but will tend to contaminate our atmosphere from the top down. These gases are sickening and killing oxygen-using life all around the world, including human life, as our atmosphere is increasingly poisoned. Because both gases are highly flammable and because our entire civilization is built around fire and flammable fuels, this is leading to more fires and explosions. This is an extinction level event and will likely decimate both the biosphere and human population and it is debatable whether humankind can survive this event.

A. More fires and more explosions, especially along the coasts, but everywhere generally.
B. Many more animal die-offs, of all kinds, and especially oceanic species.
C. More multiples of people will be found dead in their homes, as if they'd dropped dead.
D. More corpses found in low-lying areas, all over the world.
E. More unusual vehicular accidents.
F. Improved unemployment numbers as people die off.

Note: If it's not from sewage then this is very likely due to clouds of low-concentration hydrogen sulfide blowing in off the ocean or off the River Thames or coming from the ground. Numerous cities have been hit with a similar stench in recent times. Hydrogen sulfide smells like 'rotten eggs' at low concentrations. At medium concentrations it may smell flowery or sickly sweet or licoricey, but your olfactory sense will get 'fatigued' and you'll quickly lose the ability to smell it at all, so you can't safely count on a lack of odor as being a sure sign that there's also a lack of hydrogen sulfide in the air.

Because it is a heavier-than-air gas, even low concentrations of hydrogen sulfide blowing through can be a serious problem, because it will settle into low-lying areas (bodies of water, basements, underground tunnels, sewers, etc) and then it will concentrate. Then when the wind picks up, a smaller but more concentrated cloud may blow onward and if it's 1:1000 concentration it can kill you with one breath. It's as if little ditches and depressions of all kinds are becoming guns of a sort that reload when the wind dies down and fire their accumulated load when the wind picks up. Along the way, wherever it lands, it may adsorb onto materials - cling to the surfaces of matter - and that residual hydrogen sulfide can poison you by touch, and you won't see it either way. You may not smell it at all when it is adsorbed onto materials either, nor will you smell it if it dissolves into water, and it IS water-soluble AND it tends to end up in all the same places that water does because it's a heavier-than-air gas.

Eventually hydrogen sulfide will contaminate the entire environment and lifespans for just about everything will plummet. Once average lifespan drops below 20-ish years for human beings then the human race will be essentially extinct even if a few survivors live on for a bit longer. All other species that use oxygen, and that includes plants, will suffer along with us - but some species can reproduce fast enough to compensate for the accelerated dying. Slow-reproducing life won't really have a chance, including all primates, elephants, whales, dolphins, tigers, rhinos, etc. Because the primary sources of the hydrogen sulfide are the oceans, seas and lakes, the life in them will die off the hardest, exactly as has happened in previous extinction events. It's already that way, with all the dying fish, starfish, whales, oysters and so on all around the planet. Birds are also highly vulnerable to gases because of their light weight and rapid respiration, which is why canaries were used in coal mines as an alert system for dangerous gases in the air.

Global warming, however real, is a mere distraction from this problem. It doesn't matter what the temperatures are or how they got there to people who've been poisoned or incinerated by methane and hydrogen sulfide. Likewise, all these conflicts around the world are simply insane. Israel and Palestine are fighting over land that will probably not be inhabitable by ANYBODY. Ukraine and Russia, North and South Korea, China and Japan, same thing. This extinction event will kill most or all of us all by itself - we don't really HAVE to help it along by killing ourselves too.

Note: They suspect arson because 1) these were all parked vehicles; and 2) they don't have a clue about what's happening. Wee hours, on the coast, no actual evidence of arson...probably not arson, just multiple parked vehicles going up in flames. This is becoming more common as the atmospheric contamination proceeds...

Note: Guy hijacked the car at gunpoint then it burst into flame on the highway - heh, I bet he wasn't expecting that! After that, he abandoned the car and hijacked a Chevy Avalanche from someone else and they haven't caught him...

Quote: "KSP said the fire happened at 7:48 a.m. at the Springfield Reservoir on Booker Road in Washington County on Friday. A Washington County Sheriff’s Deputy was on the scene and noticed a body inside the burning vehicle."

Quote: "'It appears that as the driver was traveling eastbound on Front this morning...some sort of medical emergency occurred,' explained TPD Sgt. Kevin Braun. 'The driver then veered off to the right and struck the Tony Packo's restaurant.'"

Quote: "However, the front wheel collapsed when the aircraft touched down, and the plane skidded on its nose about 200 yards, Stout said. After coming to rest, the plane burst into flames, but Stout said they were quickly extinguished."

Quote: "The latest accident comes after two serious incidents involving public buses last week. Four people were killed after a bus caught fire on July 27 on the TEM highway on the Asian side of the city, while 11 people were injured after a bus crashed into a wall July 29 near the Asian district of Cekmekoy."

Quote: "'I started making noises at them, screaming at them, yelling at them — nothing. They would not respond. They stood their ground,' Mendoza said. 'I started backing up and they started advancing.' That’s when Mendoza got really scared, worrying he wouldn’t be able to get his dogs inside before an attack."

Quote: "The New York City Department of Health conducted a massive emergency preparedness drill at 30 facilities across the city on Friday. They tested the delivery of emergency medications in the event of a biological attack, such as anthrax, or other large-scale public health emergency in the city. The majority of the deliveries will take place to public school buildings. It's the largest surprise drill in the city's history."

Note: Coming on the heels of the gigantic explosions that devastated the city of Kaohsiung (Taiwan) and concurrent with the spread of Ebola, this is somewhat ominous, although I'm not knocking any kind of drilling or training in preparation for possible catastrophe(s)...

Quote: "A lake that mysteriously appeared in a drought-stricken region of Tunisia last month is being hailed as a miracle by locals but may in fact be radioactive. Local shepherds discovered the large body of water along the Om Larayes Rd, about 25km from the southern Tunisian city of Gafsa, about three weeks ago, FRANCE24 reports. Since then, hundreds of people have flocked to the oasis-like formation dubbed 'Lac de Gafsa' or Gafsa Beach."

Quote: "Upon reviewing the original footage from the camera system and measuring the unidentified creature against objects pictured in the footage, the animal was not believed to be more than two feet tall."

Note: Two feet tall is not tiny! Not a mountain lion, too small, but it's way bigger than a cat. This could be a genetic chimera, and if so, it's obviously mostly feline...

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Those who believe they will by-pass the worst of the collapse, even fantasizing about long-term survival (to what end?), will be disappointed to find that they didn’t think of and prepare for every possibility that will affect them.

Nuclear meltdown, by itself, is an extinction event. Fukushima has not been contained, is not under control and is spewing deadly radiation in untold amounts every second of every day into the Pacific and into the atmosphere, spreading its toxicity into the food chain. As other plants fail in the future (to be decommissioned due to lack of funds, energy and manpower) the radiation levels will undoubtedly increase.

Climate change is due to steadily heat and dry out (and/or flood) our global habitat to the point where food production becomes near impossible. Soils are already depleted of nutrients and now contain a fine layer of radioactive particulates (among others like black carbon, power plant soot and brake dust).

Diseases like ebola, dengue fever, West Nile virus and others are becoming more prevalent, as are tick and mosquito borne ones.

The oceans of the world are dying due to acidification, heating and pollution, and will not be able to support marine life enough to feed the remaining humans.

Economic collapse is right around the corner and the pressure for WWIII is building in both the Middle East and the Ukraine (with others continually popping up).

These are just a few of the many factors leading to the extinction conclusion. Some others are: the human propensity for violence rather than cooperation, methane and hydrogen sulfide becoming ever greater percentages of atmospheric content (with their lethal side-effects), and the collapse of the “just in time” supply chains that keep humanity ignorant of the on-going collapse, that, like a sinkhole, just hasn’t reached your area yet.

These and other factors are cumulative and interactive, like the near 40 (and rising) self-reinforcing feedbacks that increase the rate of climate change and habitat loss, and should be added to (or maybe multiplied by would be more accurate) the natural disasters that we’ve become accustomed to lately: typhoons and hurricanes of immense size and power, earthquakes, sinkholes (and now bursting methane pockets), tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and tornados.

Waiting in the wings is sea level rise, silently, steadily creeping up on unsuspecting coastal dwellers (about 40% of the global population, according to one source, live within 100 km of the coast; another source says roughly 1/2 the global population lives within 60 km of the shoreline).

Underlying it all is the fact that overpopulation is still on-going and drives a lot of the underlying human systems of resource extraction and use and of the results mentioned.

Well, thanks for the cheery post with which to start this fine Sunday! Not that I have any argument with what you said. I wish I had some arguments, because I kinda like arguing - the woman says I should've been a lawyer, and I highly suspect she doesn't mean that as a compliment! Heh.

Staff tell of fears as jet from Africa is quarantined after the death of passenger who was ‘sweating and vomiting’ before she collapsed. Airport staff tonight told of their fears of an Ebola outbreak after a passenger from Sierra Leone collapsed and died as she got off a plane at Gatwick. Workers said they were terrified the virus could spread globally through the busy international hub from the West African country which is in the grip of the deadly epidemic. The woman, said to be 72, became ill on the gangway after she left a Gambia Bird jet with 128 passengers on board. She died in hospital on Saturday. Ebola has killed 256 people in Sierra Leone. A total of 826 have died in West Africa since the outbreak began in February. Tests were carried out to see if the woman had the disease. The plane was quarantined as ­officials desperately tried to trace everyone who had been in contact with the woman. Airport workers faced an anxious wait to see if the woman had Ebola. One said: “Everyone’s just ­petrified. “We’ve all seen how many people have died from Ebola, especially in Sierra Leone, and it’s terrifying.”

Speaking of the horrific moment the passenger collapsed, the shocked staff member added: “The woman was sweating buckets and vomiting. “Paramedics arrived to try and help her. The next thing everybody was there… emergency crews, airfield operations, even immigration. “They closed down the jet bridge and put the aircraft into quarantine. “They took everyone’s details, even the guy who fuels the aircraft.” The plane carrying the woman came from Freetown in Sierra Leone – a country with the highest number of victims from the disease. It stopped at Banjul in The Gambia before landing in Gatwick at 8.15am on Saturday after a five-hour flight. Public Health England tried to allay fears of an Ebola ­breakout in Britain. It said the woman showed no ­symptoms during the flight. One ­official added: “Public Health England is aware a passenger arriving on a flight from The Gambia that landed at Gatwick airport on Saturday fell ill shortly after disembarking.